De-activate a swap partition - I don't believe it!

[jdow]

From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>

> Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Monday 20 March 2006 16:46, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> Rebooting didn't help.  During bootup it reported
>>>>
>>>> I/O error on device hdb, logical block 0.
>>> Well, that probably means that the drive has a bad sector in a very
>>> unlucky spot.
>>>
>>> I'm sure that's no relief to you, but I was worried for a minute that I
>>> shouldn't use gparted in the future. ;)
>> 
>> I've heard it recommended so often that it can't be so very bad, but I must 
>> admit I would be worried about using it again.
>> 
>> Anne
>> 
> Anne,
> What is it with you and drives with the first sector going bad?
> This is the second one you have run into is a couple of months!
> Did you ever get the data off the one from your friend?

First sector not bad. "hdb" instead of "/dev/hdb" is bad.
{^_-}